(ROME — 24 February 2019) The high-level gathering of senior Churchmen on clerical sexual abuse is over. We still don’t have a clear idea of what it was about. We don’t really even have a […]
One of the unique aspects of the Genesis narratives is that the sacred author(s) have such a profound consciousness of divine election that they see the beginning of the Hebrew people as flowing very naturally […]
(ROME – February 22nd, 2019) The participants in the Vatican’s meeting on child protection are serious and determined. Just what it is, about which they are serious and determined is a different question, with objects […]
(February 21st, 2019 — Rome) The highest-level Catholic meeting on the most terrible ecclesiastical crisis in 500 years opened in Rome on Thursday in the almost surreal conditions created by a heady atmosphere of intense […]
Prior to today’s opening of the long-awaited summit on clergy sexual abuse, the Catholic Women’s Forum provided key participants with the input and concerns of American Catholic women. Today, February 21, 2019, the summit which […]
When the eremitic monk and reformer Peter Damian cast his critical gaze upon the Catholic Church of the mid-eleventh century, he encountered a panorama of corruption that would have appeared daunting even to the most […]
Responsibility. Accountability. Transparency. Those are the themes of the working days scheduled for the meeting on child protection, which opens tomorrow in the Vatican. Organizers and participants of the meeting have a long row to […]
When I read the recent results from a Barna Group report suggesting that just under half (47%) of Christian Millennials think it’s wrong to evangelize, I confess I felt a bit like the Apostle Paul, […]
The eyes of the world will once again be drawn to the painful reality of clerical crimes when Vatican Summit on the Protection of Minors meets this week in Rome. The damage such crimes have […]
(Rome, February 16th, 2019) The Vatican announced on Saturday that the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore, Edgar McCarrick, has been dismissed from the clerical state after being found guilty of several different canonical […]
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